Beyonce grabbed much of the limelight at the MTV Video Music Awards with her pregnany announcement and broke a Twitter record of 8,868 tweets per second when she showed her baby bump after her performance.

The last highest Twitter record was of 7,196, after Japan won over U.S. in the Women’s World Cup final in July.

Beyonce with her four months pregnancy is expecting her first child with husband Jay-Z.

Not just Twitter, MTV also saw a record of 2.3 million video streams for the day. MTV.com attracted the biggest VMA day audience ever— nearly 2 million and MTV’s mobile site scored its biggest mobile views per day ever.

Beyonce Pregnancy
Beyonce, who announced her pregnancy earlier in the day, rubs her stomach after performing "Love On Top" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, August 28, 2011. Reuters
Beyonce Pregnancy
Beyonce shows her baby bump after performing "Love On Top" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles Aug. 28, 2011. Reports were that Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, will be expecting their first child next spring. However, on Sept. 23, Beyonce said in a scene from her DVD that she was six months pregnant at the time. Reuters
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Singer Beyonce waves to fans after performing "Love On Top" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles August 28, 2011. Beyonce and husband, rapper Jay-Z, will be expecting their first child next spring. Reuters
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Beyonce arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards where she announced that she is expecting her first child with husband Jay-Z. Reuters
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